Top 40 Saddest Songs Ever Made
 

So, 2015 is upon us 2014 is in the history books and everyone is posting their top 40's or top 100's. Worst and best movies, songs and so forth. On here we have the songs that hit you below the belt but that doesn't mean they are sad just that they were used against you you. In the top 40 saddest songs of all time I saw a ton of crap from the past two years which included songs from Salena Gomez, Chris Brown and or all People Kanya West. So I thought I would put it to our very intelligent very intellectual people who look at tits all day. What would you say are the saddest songs every performed. Feel free to make a top 40 or just one. I will ask anyone who posts a Justin Beiber or Kanye song be banned from VEF.

For me the saddest song ever written is called Love Me by Colin Raye.

"Who's Going to Drive You Home Tonight" -- the Cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

"Dreaming my Dreams" -- Waylon Jennings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI_OcW9wxGk

"Green Green Grass of Home" -- many versions, but I'd pick the Roger Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJeS4VGwoyY

NB, this song, written by Curly Putnam, relies on a twist from the celebrated Ambrose Bierce short story, "The incident at Owl Creek Bridge"

David Blue
 

David Bromberg
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-y3DB0wLh4

El Paso, by Marty Robbins

Even worse.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmN8vQCqbek

The Christmas Shoes

Terry Jacks: Seasons in the Sun, 1973


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tPcc1ftj8E



Eric Clapton:Tears in Heaven, 1991


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0

Sad Cafe: Every Day Hurts

http://youtu.be/8LNOhZI72AY

Joe Jackson: Is She Really Going Out With Him (10 secs lopped due to unfortunate sighting of Jimmy Saville)

http://youtu.be/6SPogGqCgeM?t=10s

Squeeze: Up The Junction

http://youtu.be/RQciegmLPAo

(But it does have one of the best opening lines: I never thought it would happen/With me and the girl from Clapham)

Forgiven Not forgotten - The Corrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01mDVRSXY_w

Soldier, by Harvey Andrews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NaKRwNSJyE

Three songs....
 

The voices and the music in these three make the lyrics that much more powerful...

Crying - Roy Orbison and KD Lang

Evening Falls - Enya

Skellig - Loreena McKennitt